The proceedings could delay some or all of the state's primaries. The state has suggested splitting those elections, keeping the presidential, State Board of Education and other statewide primaries in place and moving congressional and legislative primaries to a later dateNote: From Texas Redistricting Michael Li – With the 2012 election process having kicked into gear and action now taking place in three courts, here’s a combined timeline of what’s on deck the next few weeks.
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Texas Tribune
By Ross Ramsey
Dec. 12, 2011
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Forget everything. The candidate announcements, the relocations, the decisions not to run again, the who vs. who vs. who and the campaign finance. Poof!
With a one-paragraph order on Friday night, the U.S. Supreme Court froze the Texas congressional and legislative elections and replaced pre-holiday candidate filings, politicking and fundraising with uncertainty and chaos.
For now, there are no new legislative districts in Texas, no new congressional districts. None of the maps has been declared illegal, but no maps for House, Senate and congressional districts are in effect either. What the Legislature drew earlier this year remains mired in court, awaiting preclearance under the Voting Rights Act from a panel of three federal judges in Washington. Maps drawn by a separate panel of judges in San Antonio — drawn because time was running out and the legislative maps hadn't been approved, or even heard by the D.C. court — were temporarily blocked Friday evening by the U.S. Supreme Court.
2 comments:
When you look at how ignorant and incompetent the Texas Governor has been on the national campaign trail, I would say "Texas politics in disarray" is a major understatement.
The fact that Texas has kept this fool as our Governor for so long says so much about the stupidity and the dysfunction of 2/3 of Texas voters - almost all on the right (wrong) wing.
You Perry voters are the laughing stock of the rest of the nation. And if you are proud or indignant about that fact, Texas is clearly running on borrowed time.
Homophobe Rich Perry with his Brokeback Mountain jacket is not something you can blame on Obama. Even sex addict and pathological liar Herman Cain looks smart compared to Perry.
Sadly, you right wingnuts like being lied to and treated like dummies.
"Don't Mess on Texas."
AMEN. Kick
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